If the Debary Fire Station needs to be fixed-up, then I would certainly hope that the funds needed were included in the proposal from Deltona to DeBary, so that the cost could be allocated appropriately. Collaboration between city/county governments is a great thing. However, spending my city taxes in another city is malfeasance. My wallet is stretched. We are paying $2.7 million for a new fire station (the biggest in W. Volusia)...when an adequate station could be built for significantly less.

Meanwhile, Deltona has 24% of the foreclosures in the entire county, the city commission is sitting on $6.6 million in federal money (taxpayer money-our money!) to help remedy the situation...and have done nothing. Our property values are crap and, we have a myriad of infrastructure issues. And still, our city government (in this case, the Fire Department) continues to prioritize the wrong things, and spend recklessly with total disregard for the citizens of Deltona.

Call it pontification, armchair quarterbacking, or whatever you would like...but, if Deltona Fire Department wins this bid for fire service in DeBary the only place where the "switch will spell disaster" is in Deltona.

...that is of course, until Deltona Fire decides they’d like to build a $3 million station in Debary and pass on the cost to the citizens there. Of course they would only do that to "better protect the citizens."